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"He's sweet and caring, but he's a stockbroker and never thinks of his life in terms of metaphors. i don't get that. and it's precisely why we couldn't be in love, not for real. i mean, partly why. and it's what made me doubt he really loved me. how could he, if i didn't love him?" girls' poker night by jill a davis
"it's not entirely true. i wouldn't love him as much if i hadn't slept with him. i know this. i could forget him more easily without that part. i just don't want to be sad about this anymore." - girls' poker night by jill a davis
"everyone's always concentrating on first love. no one seems to care much about second love. or third. or fourth love. first love, that's the one that's always celebrated and documented like it never happened before to anyone, anywhere. it's like the firstborn: you take a million photographs of the kid, and then the other ones come along and it's like you can't be bothered to take the lens cap off." - girls' poker night by jill a davis
"it's a refining process, though, falling in love. what didn't work the first time won't work the second time. or the third. but in fourth love there will probably be aspects of first and second." - girls' poker night by jill a davis
"when you run into the later loves, that's when things get scary. i mean, it's at that point you've got a potential keeper on your hands. and to me that means: run for your life; it could be final love." - girls' poker night by jill a davis
"when i'm really serious about making this love thing work, i start bargaining. maybe we all do. i gather up my vices -- sugar, buying houseplants and then never watering them, cynicism -- and promise to abstain from all three in exchange for a new, more optimistic prospective. a life that works." - girls' poker night by jill a davis
"you don't need to know that i walk around all day fearing the things that make me happy, and that i have been doing that for my entire life." - girls' poker night by jill a davis
"you don't need to know that growing up has come late to me. i'm the last one at the party. but at least i've shown up." - girls' poker night by jill a davis
"you don't need to know that i'm telling myself to stay when i feel like leaving. because leaving is easy, and staying takes work. but in the midst of the work, i might lose some of my fear." - girls' poker night by jill a davis
"you don't need to know that up until i met him, my life's goal was self-preservation. and that when i met him, self-preservation was genuinely lonely." - girls' poker night by jill a davis
"when you run into love and it seems like some psychedelic mystery, look at it again, and again, and keep looking it until you realize the only mystery is how you've gotten by so long without it." - girls' poker night by jill a davis
"i'm filled with regret for not telling him everything he didn't need to know but should have known." - girls' poker night by jill a davis
"you can't start over. there's no such thing as starting over. there's only history. and right now you're making tomorrow's history, so go out and do something that will be fun to remember." - girls' poker night by jill a davis
